What is it about?
This study is the first to link high levels of secondary traumatic stress to moral injury and burnout among frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why is it important?
Frontline healthcare workers are facing unprecedented challenges that may result in secondary traumatic stress and consequently, moral injury and burnout. Physicians and nurses are encouraged to seek support, utilize counseling services, and practice intentional self-care strategies to mitigate these effects.
Perspectives
Frontline healthcare workers rarely extend the same self-care to themselves that they encourage in their clients. More than anything else, I hope that physicians and nurses who read this article will feel validated in knowing they are not alone in their experiences and find ways to carve out time to care for themselves.
Stacey Litam
Cleveland State University
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This page is a summary of: Moral injury in health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic., Traumatology An International Journal, March 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/trm0000290.
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